David Russell Quotes
I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
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I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
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I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.
